Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits.

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

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

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.

There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not require the same food with the scholar whose brain is weary.

It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.