A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

Sing it not in mournful numbers.

Method will teach you to win time.