Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.

Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.