How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

The persons whom you have idolized can never, in the end, be ungrateful, and, probably, at the time of retreat they still do justice to your heart. But, so long as you must draw persons too near you, a temporary recoil is sure to follow. It is the character striving to defend itself from a heating and suffocating action upon it.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.