To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

No strength within, no respect without.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.