No man is useless while he has a friend.

I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share in all honorable curiosities, to be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness-these are the gifts of fortune which money cannot buy, and without which money can buy nothing.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

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