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.

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

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

Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.