Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous to society than a sense of wrong is in their heads.

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.