If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.

There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works; yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.