I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.

I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the related ones were brought together into separate essays.

What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the preface,not concluded in the appendix. Even Virgil's poetry serves a very different use to me today from what it did to his contemporaries. It has often an acquired and accidental value merely, proving that man is still man in the world.