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.

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.