Economics and ethics have little in common.

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.

Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.