Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.