The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

To a valet no man is a hero.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.