Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.

Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men. Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A prætor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress.

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.