Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into living peace.

The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.