“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”

“O my brethren! I have told Most bitter truth, but without bitterness. Nor deem my zeal fractious or mistimed; For never can true courage dwell with them Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.”

“A great mind must be androgynous.”

“If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.”

“No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”

“Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.”

“Ere I was old? Ah woeful Ere,Which tells me, Youth's no longer here!O Youth! for years so many and sweet,'Tis known that Thou and I were one,I'll think it but a fond conceit--It cannot be that Thou art gone!”