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

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

Silence is sorrow's best food.

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.