Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

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.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.