Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.

There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Humility is the secret of the wise.