If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

True art is reverent imitation of God.

The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.