Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone.

There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in this light, the novelist has a higher office than merely and amuse his contemporaries.

What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous weeks of winter.