One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings.

Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges. The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably.

When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.