In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

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

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.