What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.

Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.

It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and others, which penetrate up the innumerable rivers of our coast in the spring, even to the interior lakes, their scales gleaming in the sun; and again, of the fry which in still greater numbers wend their way downward to the sea.