In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.

A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

See deep enough, and you see musically.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.