All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

We are all of us more or less active physiognomists.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.