A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.

As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.

The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.

The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There is no telling what it may not vomit up.