How sweet an emotion is possession! What charm is inherent in ownership! What a foundation for vanity, even for the greater quality of self-respect, lies in a little property!

Of all obstacles to that complete democracy of which we dream, is there a greater than property?

Human happiness is the true odour of growth, the sweet exhalation of work.

What a convenient and delightful world is this world of books!-If you bring to it not the obligations of the student, or look upon it as an opiate for idleness, but enter it rather with enthusiasm of the adventurer.

I do not have to make over the universe; I have only to do my job, great or small, and to look often at the trees and the hills and the sky, and be friendly with all men.