If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.