For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.