Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
Politeness is the flower of humanity.