The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do.

Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.