Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.

Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

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.

Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.