Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly; nor do I regret that I did not waste more of them in the workshop or the teacher's desk.

It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished traveler who comes to our shores is likely to get more dinners and speeches of welcome than he can well dispose of, but the best books, if noticed at all, meet with coldness and suspicion, or, what is worse, gratuitous, off-hand criticism.

Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.

The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself.

The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.