Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.

Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.