Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even, than what he condemns, of his character, information, and abilities. No wonder, then, that most people are so shy of praising anything.

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

So what we see in the wild may be really sophisticated.

They know when they need help.