Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.

My name is Death: the last best friend am I.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory

Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.