Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.

The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.

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

Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?