Self-complacen cy is fatal to progress.

Not always the fanciest cake that's there Is the best to eat!

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.

In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.

I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

A letter is the most imperishable thing on earth.