A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.