Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

In order to die, you must first have lived.

When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters.

Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail.... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.