In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

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.

A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.