He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

The question is yet before the court.

I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

No, but you're wrong now, and always will be.

The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.