Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.

People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.