I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.

There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty, and report it. I cannot see without awe, that no man thinks alone and no man acts alone, but the divine assessors who came up with him into life,--now under one disguise, now under another,--like a police in citizen's clothes, walk with him, step for step, through all kingdoms of time.

It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly; that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired, meanness despised, manly feelings and generous conduct are encouraged: that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank, and to the child of upstart wealth an even-handed justice, purges their nonsense out of both, and does all that can be done to make them gentlemen.