Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.

I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.

When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters.

It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

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.