Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.

Friendship takes time.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.