Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.

An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.