A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.

A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.

Pretension is nothing; power is everything.

The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise,--in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought,--often bringing dissimilar things together with a shock; as when some wit called Boyle, the celebrated philosopher, the father of chemistry and brother of the Earl of Cork.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

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

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.