But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.

The poor are only they who feel poor.

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.