The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence. |
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. |
The best part of health is fine disposition |
The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob. |
The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he! |
The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it. |
The cardinal virtue of a teacher (is) to protect the pupil from his own influence |
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. |
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy |
The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral. |
The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions /an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own. |
The city is recruited from the country. |
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. |
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed. |
The course of everything goes to teach us faith. |