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.

Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.