There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

Thoughts rule the world.

Traveling is a fool's paradise.

The student is to read history actively and not passively.

One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.