Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

No furniture is so charming as books.