There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope.

I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.

the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future

I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.

When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!