Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.

The student is to read history actively and not passively.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.