The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Let us be poised, wise and our own today.

The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople: to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.

Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.