Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.

Our ideals are our better selves.