Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

It is the eye which makes the horizon.

The finest poetry was first experience.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.