There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times past become time present, and the whole pageantry of the world's history moves in solemn procession before our eyes, -these were to visit the firesides of the humble and lavish the treasures of the intellect upon the poor.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.