Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.
Rules and models destroy genius and art.