The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections.

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

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

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

Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which Dean Swift, in his epitaph on the affluent and profligate Colonel Chartres, announces the small esteem of wealth in the eyes of God, from the fact of His thus lavishing it upon the meanest and basest of His creatures?

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

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