Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.
The seeds of first instructions are dropp'd into the deepest furrows.
Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.
None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is satisfied and floweth over.
Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.
Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.