Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.