There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.