Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.

Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.