The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.

When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.