the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.