How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

Here are the three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions.

Do what you will, only do something.

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.

There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist

Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.