We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.