The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.