Thoughts Lead On To Purpose, Purpose Leads

The Great End Of Education Is, To Discipline Rather Than To Furnish The Mind; To Train It To The Use Of Its Own Powers, Rather Than Fill It With The Accumulation Of Others.

My Books Are My Tools, And The Greater Their Variety And Perfection The Greater The Help To My Literary Work.

One Of The Great Lessons The Fall Of The Leaf Teaches, Is This: Do Your Work Well And Then Be Ready To Depart When God Shall Call.

The Leaves Do Not Change Color From The Blighting Touch Of The Frost, But From The Process Of Natural Decay. They Fall When The Fruit Has Been Ripened And Their Work Is Done. And Their Splendid Change Of Coloring Is But Their Graceful And Beautiful Surrender Of Life, When They Have Finished Their Summer Offering Of Service To God And Man.

Most Of Our Censure Of Others Is Only Oblique Praise Of Self, Uttered To Show The Wisdom And Superiority Of The Speaker. It Has All The Invidiousness Of Self-praise, And All The Ill-desert Of Falsehood.