In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.