Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

The world globes itself in a drop of dew.

I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.