Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him see green, and, if he slept, dream that he heard the wind sough among the pines.