A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

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

Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.