To be great is to be misunderstood.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

You can take better care of your secret than another can.

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

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.