“Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.”

“I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.”

“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”

“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

“Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.”