Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.

Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.

We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.

A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.

There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.

The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.

Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate hobbies. Society as a whole is the deadly enemy of the particular crotchet of each, and solitude is almost the only condition in which the acorn of conceit can grow to the oak of perfect self-delusion.