I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.