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

As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.

Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.

Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

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