Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

Sincerity is moral truth.

To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

Good writers are of necessity rare.