 Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. |
| The less routine the more life. |
| Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness. |
| That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. |
| To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. |
| A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. Topics: Business |
| Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well. |
| We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. |
| Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams. |
| Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. |
| Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. |
| First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others. |
| While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. |
| Our ideals are our better selves. |
| A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. |
| One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. |
| To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. Topics: Age |
| Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides. |
| Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. |
| The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. |
