Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

Dogs wait for us faithfully.

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

O philosophy, you leader of life.