France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. - Mark Twain

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

Now he found out a new thing — namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.