There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

The only method to possess a buddy is always to be one.

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.