The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

The soul knows no persons.

A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.