Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.

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

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

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.