The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

New occasions teach new duties.