Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned..

No life can be pure in its purpose, and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby..

Rest is sweet after strife..

We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks..

No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere..

Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known..

Good -humor is goodness and wisdom combined..

There's a moment when all would go smooth and even, If only the dead could find out when To come back, and be forgiven..

However we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day he gives us the slip for t….

Who can undo What time hath done? Who can win back the wind? Reckon lost music from a broken lute? Renew the redness of a last year's rose? Or di….

They only fall, that strive to move, Or lose, that care to keep..

Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read..

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not..

We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain..

It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanit….

Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then..

Life is good, but not life in itself..

Do not think that years leave us and find us the same!.

There is a pleasure that is born of pain..

There is purpose in pain; otherwise it were devilish..

No one will learn anything at all, unless one first will learn humility..