Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

It is always our inabilities that vex us.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.