The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.

I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that ourlife should be lived as tenderly and daintily as one would pluck a flower.

The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.

Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand what you saw you would make fewer traveler's mistakes.