You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.