What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered]

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

The secret of success in education is respecting the students.