Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.

With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.