Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

Calculation never made a hero.