There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

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.