Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons of infinite worth may be derived.

It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated by others.

We may print, but not stereotype, our opinions.