Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.