Pretension is nothing; power is everything.

Lord Chatham and Napoleon were ns much actors as Garrick or Talma. Now, an imposing air should always be taken as evidence of imposition. Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

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

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.

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.

Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.