Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat andpotatoes, they cultivate literature, and fill a place in the Republic of Letters. Or they would fain write for fame merely, as others actually raise crops of grain to be distilled into brandy.

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.