I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.