If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

Stories first heard standing at a mother's knee, are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.

The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.