Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.