1. “Who knows the mind has the key to all things else.”
2. “That is a good book which is opened with expectation ad closed with delight and profit.”
3. “Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.”
4. “The less routine the more life.”
5. “One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.”
6. “Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”
7. “Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.”
8. “The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.”
9. “Success is sweeter as sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.”
10. “Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.”
11. “I am an idea without hands.”
12. “Observation more than books and experience more tha persons, are the prime educators.”
13. “An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.”
14. “Our ideals are our better selves.”
15. “Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.”
16. “We have to climb the heavens most often o the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.”
17. “Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.”
18. “Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.”
19. “First find man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.”
20. “Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.”
21. “One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another’s.”
22. “Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.”
23. “To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.”
24. “Time is one’s best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.”
25. “A govermnent, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.”
26. “Egotist cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.”
27. “To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.”
28. “Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.”
29. “Fullness is always quiet: agitation will answer for empty vessels only.”
30. “Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.”
