The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!