Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.