Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.