In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

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

The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.

Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.