Master books, but do not let them master you.
I did not fall into love - I rose into love.
Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?
Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you out of extravagance; a team of hobbies you cannot drive till you are rich enough to find corn for them all. Few men are rich enough for that.
Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.