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

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.

Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul.

The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.