When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.

Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?

Opposition strengthens the manly will.

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.