It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.