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.

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.

I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.

When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.