We live ruins amid ruins.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.

It is with a good book as it is with good company.

If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.