Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.