A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.

I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?

I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.