To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, "the friend of God," Abraham was that man. We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.