Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

Genius is its own end.

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

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty, and report it. I cannot see without awe, that no man thinks alone and no man acts alone, but the divine assessors who came up with him into life,--now under one disguise, now under another,--like a police in citizen's clothes, walk with him, step for step, through all kingdoms of time.