The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?

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 close-fitting dress of thought.

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

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.

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.

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