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.
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.