Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.

Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.

In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass grew and water ran. It is no small recommendation when a book will stand the test of mere unobstructed sunshine and daylight.

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.