A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.

A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.