The soul circumscribes all things.
Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.
It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.