If you want a friend you need to be a friend.

Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.

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.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.