What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talent; they will more than supply all.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

Business first, then pleasure.

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

Laws die, books never.

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.