Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.