The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.
To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.
Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker
We expect a great man to be a good reader.
This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.
Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.