I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

The highest end of government is the culture of men.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.