High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.