There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

I am reminded by my journey how exceedingly new this country still is. You have only to travel for a few days into the interior and back parts even of many of the old States, to come to that very America which the Northmen, and Cabot, and Gosnold, and Smith, and Raleigh visited.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a playful wisdom which has eyes behind as well as before, and oversees itself. It asserts their health and independence of the experience of later times. This pledge of sanity cannot be spared in a book, that it sometimes pleasantly reflect upon itself.

I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.

Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.