A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.
Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.
I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.
Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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.
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