The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.

Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.