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 is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight.

The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.

There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.