The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.

A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.

No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth.

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.