Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

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

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.