The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.

They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine.

Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course.

Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere.

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.