Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.

Lies can destroy, but not create.

I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.

Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him.

Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.