Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

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.