Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.
We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.
We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.