Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.