Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.