Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
Silence is become his mother tongue.
There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.
Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
I always get the better when I argue alone.
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.