A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.