I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous spirit is wiser than to contend for the mastery in such encounters. Serpents alone conquer by the steadiness of their gaze. My friend looks me in the face and sees me, that is all.

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.