Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.
Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.
In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.
Let there be worse cotton and better men.
Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.