We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

He only is rich who owns the day.