I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

Slander is the solace of malignity.

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.