We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor and who honor us! How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with! Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth.

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

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

The student is to read history actively and not passively.

How much finer things are in composition than alone.

We read often with as much talent as we write.

Education should be as broad as man.