The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

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.

And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.

We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.

Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.