Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.