The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.

Good taste consists first upon fitness.