You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.

One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.

Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear; and you shall never find that perception again; never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds my lie between you and its return.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.