True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.

Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.