Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.