Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

Action has magic, grace and power in it.

On all the peaks lies peace.