People die of fright and live of confidence.

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

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

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.