Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.

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.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.