Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.