Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past as of tradition. It is not adistance of time, but a distance of relation, which makes thus dusky its memorials. What is near to the heart of this generation is fair and bright still. Greece lies outspread fair and sunshiny in floods of light, for there is the sun and daylight in her literature and art. Homer does not allow us to forget that the sun shone,--nor Phidias, nor the Parthenon.

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.