When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.