A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.