While we read history we make history.

Happiness is speechless.

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.

It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.