The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.

Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.