Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.