The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.

The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.