When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.