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

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

Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse

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.

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.

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.

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