We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the preface,not concluded in the appendix. Even Virgil's poetry serves a very different use to me today from what it did to his contemporaries. It has often an acquired and accidental value merely, proving that man is still man in the world.

It is a great art to saunter !

Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.