Only On The Edge Of The Grave

One Friend In A Life-time Is Much; Two Are Many; Three Are Hardly Possible. Friendship Needs A Certain Parallelism Of Life, A Community Of Thought, A Rivalry Of Aim.

The Mind Resorts To Reason For Want Of Training.

The Difference Is Slight, To The Influence Of An Author, Whether He Is Read By Five Hundred Readers, Or By Five Hundred Thousand; If He Can Select The Five Hundred, He Reaches The Five Hundred Thousand.

At The Utmost, The Active-minded Young Man Should Ask Of His Teacher Only Mastery Of His Tools. The Young Man Himself, The Subject Of Education, Is A Certain Form Of Energy; The Object To Be Gained Is Economy Of His Force; The Training Is Partly The Clearing Away Of Obstacles, Partly The Direct Application Of Effort. Once Acquired, The Tools And Models May Be Thrown Away.

Charles Sumner's Mind Had Reached The Calm Of Water Which Receives And Reflects Images Without Absorbing Them; It Contains Nothing But Itself.