One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature.

The Library is a wilderness of books.

A little thought is sexton to all the world.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.