A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.