Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.

The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.

The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.

Live in the sunshine.

Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.