Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.