Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.

Power dwells with cheerfulness.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.