The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry,-determine to make a day of it.

God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.

Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.

In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass grew and water ran. It is no small recommendation when a book will stand the test of mere unobstructed sunshine and daylight.

Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.