One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

Love can do much, but duty more.

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.