Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

A great man is always willing to be little.

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.