That best academy, a mother's knee.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

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.

And what they dare to dream of, date to do.

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.