It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as then need is.

We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!

Skill to do comes of doing.

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?