Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.

Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.

there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.

Truth is the first of jewels.