Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river.

Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.

It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.

More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.