No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.