Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
Taste is the next gift to genius.
The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.