Good writers are of necessity rare.

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.

All great authors are seers.

Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.

Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms, and in what may be called the inherited intuitions--these form the multiple unity which is expressed in the abstract term "experience.

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.