He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.
Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
All true religion must stand on true morality.
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.