No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

THERE are joys which long to be ours.

Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.