Goodness that preaches undoes itself.

The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.