Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.