If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.