Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey.

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?

We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced.

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.