We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.

Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?