The Truest Characters Of Ignorance Are Vanity

Virtue Knows That It Is Impossible To Get On Without Compromise, And Tunes Herself, As It Were, A Trifle Sharp To Allow For An Inevitable Fall In Playing.

Life Is A Quarry, Out Of Which We Are To Mold And Chisel And Complete A Character.

Men Should Not Try To Overstrain Their Goodness More Than Any Other Faculty, Bodily Or Mental.

Letters Are Like Wine; If They Are Sound They Ripen With Keeping. A Man Should Lay Down Letters As He Does A Cellar Of Wine.

Young People Have A Marvelous Faculty Of Either Dying Or Adapting Themselves To Circumstances.