Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.