O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

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

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.

Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.