Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.

There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.

That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!

To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another.