There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.

All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state.

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.