“Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.”

“... first learn to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; ...”

“Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.”

“Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.”

“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable”

“For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write”

“They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!”