Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.

The king is the man who can.

A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.

A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?