I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.

This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Earth endures; Stars abide.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.