Folks never understand the folks they hate.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!

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

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

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.