The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

A man's library is a sort of harem.

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.