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

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

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.

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.