Reputation is only a candle of wavering and uncertain flame and easily blown out but it is the ligh

Reputation is only a candle of wavering and uncertain flame and easily blown out but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Author: James Russell Lowell

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not.