When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.

Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.

Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.

Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.