Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.

Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.