A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!

The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.