It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page-boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk- they are all p…

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot.

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise-and no faculty grows save as it is e…