Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.

My body is but the lees of my better being.

It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death.

That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped.

An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And though want of suspicion more than want of sense, sometimes leads a man into harm; yet too much suspicion is as bad as too little sense.

Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.

The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.