Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.

The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

Our thinking is a pious reception.