Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued.

A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.

Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.

Very few can be trusted with an education.

With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.