As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.

Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.

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

Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,--but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character.

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.

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