I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account.

There is ripe fruit over your head.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is turned to stone.There was but the sun and the eye from the first. The ages have not added a new ray to the one, nor altered a fibre of the other.

A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and accordingly, whatever we meet with in cold and bleak places, as the tops of mountains, we respect for a sort of sturdy innocence, a Puritan toughness. All things beside seem to be called in for shelter, and what stays out must be part of the original frame of the universe, and of such valor as God himself.