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"There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy."
"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."
"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."
"I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future."
"Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith."
"One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's."
"Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams."
"Many can argue - not many converse."
"Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness."
"The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power."
"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."
"Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams."
"Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament."
"Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance."
"Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar."
"Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also."
"Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment."
"Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest."
"As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind."
"No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train."