Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

The dearest events are summer-rain.

For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.