Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

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.

There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.