Treat your friend as a spectacle.
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.
My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.
The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.