There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.
A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.