A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.

After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.

To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell in forms, andflatter and study effect only more finely than the rest.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience.