There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.