The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.

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.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.