The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

The order of things consents to virtue.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.

Let there be worse cotton and better men.

Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.