If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.