Education is the apprenticeship of life.

The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise..

Whatever is beautiful is also profitable..

Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science encourages conceit.….

What philosopher of the schoolroom, with the mental dowry of four summers, ever questions the power of the wand that opened the dark eyes of the beau….

How deep is the magic of sound may be learned by breaking some sweet verses into prose. The operation has been compared to gathering dew-drops, which….

The fame of a battlefield grows with its years; Napoleon storming the Bridge of Lodi, and Wellington surveying the towers of Salamanca, affect us wit….

It is the empiric who never fails..

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty..

Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him in vain; Greece an….

Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its prospect. The ori….

The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hou….

It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature; which recognizes a ….

The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his….

Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time..

It is only dislocated minds whose movements are spasmodic..

Honest fiction may be made to supplement the pulpit..

We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil..

Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke ever breathed so thick a mi….

It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wickedness..

Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion..