When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.

Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.

The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation.

It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.