Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

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

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

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.