Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

To genius life never grows commonplace.

The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.

To fail at all is to fail utterly.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!