To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.
Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.
Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?
Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.