What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.

I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.