In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.

The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.