It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is...
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.
Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.
Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.