Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.

Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.

Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.