The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.

Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.

For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.

We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury of all. A gloomy person was said to be saturnine, as being born under the planet Saturn, who was considered to make those who owned his influence, and were born when he was in the ascendant, grave and stern as himself.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.