But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your Manchesters and Birminghams; and, in those Manchesters and Birminghams, hundreds of thousands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test.

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern.