Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.