A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.

Let us be poised, wise and our own today.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.