Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.

All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on.

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.