The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

Words of love, are works of love.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.