Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.

Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of the heart, and all milk on the other, the unsexed scandal-monger hies from house to house, pouring balm from its weeping eyes on the wounds it inflicts with its stabbing tongue.

The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.

No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth.

A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.