Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.

Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.

Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth.

As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead.