Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

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.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

The less routine the more life.