As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought. - John Lancaster Spalding

As the savages whom we have instructed are ready when left to themselves to return to their ancestral mode of life, so our young people quickly forget what they have learned at school, and sink back into the commonplace existence from which a right education would have saved them.

A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.