Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!

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.

The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.

As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.