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Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.

A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.

Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness
Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,
one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.

From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.

There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy.

Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.

A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.

The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.

Pretension is nothing; power is everything.

Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.