You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.