“The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.”

“There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.”

“Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.”

“AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days;Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays;Whether we look, or whether we listen,We hear life murmur, or see it glisten;”

“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”

“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”

“He chooses his language for its rich canorousness rather than for intensity of meaning.”