Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.