Activity and sadness are incompatible.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.