We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.