Nothing ages like laziness.

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

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.

What is human is immortal!

The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization,--the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre-eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell.