Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

Reality is a sliding door.

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to hermother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.