Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.