Men hate more steadily than they love.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.

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.

A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.