There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.

True happiness springs from moderation.

Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.