A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely!

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.