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

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

We go to Europe to be Americanized.

He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

Every time you wink the stars move.