In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures.