You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

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

Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.

You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.