Scold your children, and they will know what is wrong; but correct them with love, and they will know what is right.

Perceptions of impossibility are commonly disspelled by unmitigated courage and perseverance.

For every achievement, there is a critic to devalue its worth.

The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle.

Mankind grows taller, older, and ever more wise; but seldom truly up.

Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.

The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.