Vain Hopes Are Like Certain Dreams Of

A Man Who Tries To Surpass Another May Perhaps Succeed In Equaling Inot Actually Surpassing Him, But One Who Merely Follows Can Never Quite Come Up With Him: A Follower, Necessarily, Is Always Behind.

God, That All-powerful Creator Of Nature And Architect Of The World, Has Impressed Man With No Character So Proper To Distinguish Him From Other Animals, As By The Faculty Of Speech.

From Writing Rapidly It Does Not Result That One Writes Well, But From Writing Well It Results That One Writes Rapidly.

In A Crowd, On A Journey, At A Banquet Even, A Line Of Thought Can Itself Provide Its Own Seclusion.

Men Of Quality Are In The Wrong To Undervalue, As They Often Do, The Practise Of A Fair And Quick Hand In Writing; For It Is No Immaterial Accomplishment.