Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
