Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall.

It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.