Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity; not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

Leaders: Captains of industry.

Silence is the eternal duty 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.