Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Plant your DREAMS and miracles will grow.

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.