Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?

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