No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.