Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much

Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.