A forte always makes a foible.

Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.