Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!

Method will teach you to win time.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.