Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich.

There is always a best way of doing everything.

The student is to read history actively and not passively.

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.

Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.