At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.