Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.