Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.

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.

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

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.

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