The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.

Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

Fear is the white lipp'd sire Of subterfuge and treachery.

The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.

There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.

The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.

Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets.

A piece of advice his father had given him surfaced in Edgar's mind. Sometimes, he had said, it's better just to keep quiet and think with your heart.

The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Be simple. Be honest. Don't overcook and don't undercook, but it's better to undercook than overcook.

As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do"

Are we even now? Or do you want to rape my body as much as you’ve raped my soul? (Acheron)

More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.