The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.