Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.

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.

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

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?

The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.