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For life, with all its yields of joy and woe, and hope and fear, believe the aged friend, is just a chance o' the prize of learning love

I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do

I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line

If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers.