The moderns do not realize modernity.

Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.

Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.