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.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

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