God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.

While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.