It is with a good book as it is with good company.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

Quotation confesses inferiority.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.