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.

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?

To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.

It is a momentous fact that a man may be good, or he may be bad; his life may be true, or it may be false; it may be either a shame or a glory to him. The good man builds himself up; the bad man destroys himself.

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?