Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.