At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!

The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.