By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.

Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.