I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.

Truth is the first of jewels.

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.