Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

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.

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.

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

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

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