To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.