Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.

Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.