The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.

Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

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