In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.