What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!

I do not remember anything which Confucius has said directly respecting man's "origin, purpose, and destiny." He was more practical than that. He is full of wisdom applied to human relations,--to the private life,--the family,--government, etc. It is remarkable that, according to his own account, the sum and substance of his teaching is, as you know, to do as you would be done by.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up his head in their company.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.