"Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge."

"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the best even of their blunders."

"The habit of intellectual principles without reasons is called faith."

"What ever lives obeys . . . he who cannot obey himself is commanded."

"Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?"

"For men are not equal: thus speaks justice."

"Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning."

"Literature is news that stays news."

"Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life."

"You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality."

"In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out."

"How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?"