The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.