The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.