A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful - while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with - he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?

Music never stops; it is only the listening that is intermittent.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.