It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.

I was determined to know beans.

All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.

The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.