The borrower runs in his own debt.

A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.