Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea.

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.

Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.