Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.

Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?

See deep enough, and you see musically.

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.

True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.