Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

I would that I were worthy to be any man's Friend.

A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it began to occupy me. By some fortunate coincidence of thought or circumstance I am attuned to the universe, I am fitted to hear, my being moves in a sphere of melody, my fancy and imagination are excited to an inconceivable degree. This is no longer the dull earth on which I stood.

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.

The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke.