You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?

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.

Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.