Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.