Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.

Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.

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

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.

Stupidity is without anxiety.