The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Was ever poet so trusted before?

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.