The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.