The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.

We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the surface, nor leaped as many above it. We know not where we are. Beside, we are sound asleep nearly half our time.

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.