Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.