The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune, isto make him play in tune; the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay, is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Hitch your wagon to a star.