Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.

You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.

We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

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

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.