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

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.