I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!

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

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.