Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.

Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man?... We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.

It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.

We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.

If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.

If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.