The Richest Minds Need Not Large Libraries.

Equanimity Is The Gem In Virtue's Chaplet, And St. Sweetness The Loveliest In Her Calendar.

A Birthday Is A Good Time To Begin A New; Throwing Away The Old Habits, As You Would Old Clothes, And Never Putting Them Again.

Nature Is The Armory Of Genius. Cities Serve It Poorly, Books And Colleges At Second Hand; The Eye Craves The Spectacle Of The Horizon; Of Mountain, Ocean, River And Plain, The Clouds And Stars; Actual Contact With The Elements, Sympathy With The Seasons As They Rise And Roll.

That Is A Good Book Which Is Opened With Expectation, And Closed With Delight And Profit.

First Find The Man In Yourself If You Will Inspire Manliness In Others.