Read to live, not live to read.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!

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?

People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?