It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.