In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.