Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?

Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

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

Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.