No man can help another without helping himself.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.