Whether it be for good or evil, the education of a child is principally derived from its own observation of the actions, the words, the voice, the looks of those with whom it lives. It is not enough, then, that parents and others set no bad example ; it is indispensable that they set a good one.
Moliere said that doctors are those who pour out medicine about which they know little, into bodies about which they know less, in order to cure diseases about which they know nothing at all.
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were tolling upward in the night.
What we gave, we have;
What we spent, we had;
What we left, we lost.
