I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.

A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.

I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.

The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more distant dwellers on its banks;many a poet's stream, floating the helms and shields of heroes on its bosom.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.