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. 
Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments. 
A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation. 
The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church. 
Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps. 
Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain. 
Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced. 
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed. 
The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged. 
Pretension is nothing; power is everything. 
Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention. 
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. 
The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius. 
Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought. 
Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment. 
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. 
God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings. 
Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning. 
Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy. 
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. 