Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.

Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.