Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

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.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.