I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country..

There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither citi….

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense..

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons..

Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness..

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers..

Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides..

Many can argue - not many converse..

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future..

Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only..

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best..

One's outlook is a part of his virtue..

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds..

The richest minds need not large libraries..

Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken..

Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it..

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written..

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine..

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well..

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism..

Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks..