Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is, by these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.

Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is, by these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.

A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.