It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent.

Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass anyman's faith in the loftiness of his destiny. Things are to be learned which it will be worth the while to learn.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

At least let us have healthy books.