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

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.

We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.