A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten.

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.