Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.

The history of a man is in his character.