Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.