In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existence on the globe.

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?

Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.