Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!