All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.