Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me

Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.