We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

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.