It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.

Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them. Still they are carolled and said - On wings they are carried - After the singer is dead And the maker buried.

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.