The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may get an idea of the primitive oaks before they are all gone, instead of hiring botanists to lecture to them when it is too late.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.