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.

The finest poetry was first experience.

The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whipof the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.