It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

He who has loved often ... has loved never.

More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.

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

Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.

Nothing ages like laziness.