It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

Order and system are nobler things than power.

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.