One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.

I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments.