He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself. The judicious quoter, too, helps on what is much needed in the world, a freer circulation of good thoughts, pure feelings, and pleasant fancies.

A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.