When a nation goes down or a society perishes one condition may always be found, they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.