A Book Should Be Luminous Not Voluminous.

Youth Is The Season Of Receptivity, And Should Be Devoted To Acquirement; And Manhood Of Power--that Demands An Earnest Application. Old Age Is For Revision.

Age, That Acquaints Us With Infirmities In Ourselves, Should Make Us Tender In Our Reprehension Of Weakness Elsewhere.

We Absolve A Friend From Gratitude When We Remind Him Of A Favor.

Nothing Is So Fragile As Thought In Its Infancy; An Interruption Breaks It: Nothing Is So Powerful, Even To Overturning Empires, When It Reaches Its Maturity.

In One Important Respect A Man Is Fortunate In Being Poor. His Responsibility To God Is So Much The Less