Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.

Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.