The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?