Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

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.

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.