It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.

It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.

Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.