The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

The ancients stole all our ideas from us.

Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.