We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.