The Success Or Failure Of A Life,

What Sense Of Superiority It Gives One To Escape Reading Some Book Which Every One Else Is Reading.

Who Would Ever Give Up The Reality Of Dreams For Relative Knowledge?

I Make It A Rule Always To Believe Compliments Implicitly For Five Minutes, And To Simmer Gently For Twenty More.

Truly Nothing Is To Be Expected Except For The Unexpected.

What One Reads, Or Rather All That Comes To Us, Is Surely Only Of Interest And Value In Proportion As We Find Ourselves Therein, -- Form Given To What Was Vague, What Slumbered Stirred To Life.