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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.
A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.