He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

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

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.