Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

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.

Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.