Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

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.

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.

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.

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.