The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.

Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.

One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.

A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.