In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.

Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.