There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams, and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.

Without mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Many can argue – not many converse.

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more; – book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.

Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse.

If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them – structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.

The less of routine, the more of life.