Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.

A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

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

When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.