It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn son, to listen with infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old who plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by the autumn; and feel most delight in the returning spring.

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

In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.

When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

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

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

Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.