The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

The world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.