Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

Many can argue -- not many converse.

Ignorance is innocence -- stupidity comes with experience.

Who knows the mind has the key to all things else.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.

None can teach admirably if not loving his task.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.

One's outlook is a part of his virtue.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.

A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.