A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.

Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.