“The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.”

“Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write”

“We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.”

“The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.”

“Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.”

“Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.”