Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

One idea lights a thousand candles.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.

It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.