In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.

Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.

How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it [an oversized home].

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.