One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.

A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.