You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you. Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud: you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer, and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice? We would be well to do likewise.

Every advantage has its tax.

What we call results are beginnings.

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Thoughts rule the world.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.