The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.

The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.

He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.