Every man is eloquent once in his life.

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

If we live truly, we shall see truly.