Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.