Every child begins the world again.

The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.

The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is...

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.