We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.

Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?