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.

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.

Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.

I have not read far in the statutes of this Commonwealth. It is not profitable reading. They do not always say what is true; and they do not always mean what they say.