He is a good man who can receive a gift well.

Our best thoughts come from others.

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.

To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.