Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.

Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.

Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.

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

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

One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.