Earth laughs in flowers.

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.