There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.
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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.
The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means