If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.

Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.