We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general,--once skilfully determined, the battle is already half won. Of a few writers it may be said that they are popular in despite of their subjects--but of a great many more it may be observed that they are popular because of them.

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.