As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.

It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.