Reply To Wit With Gravity, And To

Of All The Faculties Of The Mind, Memory Is The First That Flourishes, And The First That Dies.

Love Is An Alliance Of Friendship And Animalism; If The Former Predominates It Is Passion Exalted And Refined; If The Latter, Gross And Sensual.

Antithesis May Be The Blossom Of Wit, But It Will Never Arrive At Maturity Unless Sound Sense Be The Trunk And Truth The Root.

We Should Choose Our Books As We Would Our Companions, For Their Sterling And Intrinsic Merit.

In The Pursuit Of Knowledge, Follow It Wherever It Is To Be Found; Like Fern, It Is The Produce Of All Climates, And Like Coin, Its Circulation Is Not Restricted To Any Particular Class.