To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!

In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

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

The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.

Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.