The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.