Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

Labor humanizes, exalts.

Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

The richest minds need not large libraries.