The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.

Much is published, but little printed.

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.