An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
Society is built upon trust.
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker.