The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.

A wise man travels to discover himself.

Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by.

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.