Base thy life on principle, not on rules.
If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.
If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.
In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.
He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.
Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.
The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.
To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?
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