To See Him Act Is Like Reading

Brute Animals Have The Vowel Sounds; Man Only Can Utter Consonants.

There Is Small Chance Of Truth At The Goal, Where There Is Not Childlike Humility At The Starting-post.

Works Of Imagination Should Be Written In Very Plain Language; The More Purely Imaginative They Are The More Necessary It Is To Be Plain.

Exclusively Of The Abstract Sciences, The Largest And Worthiest Portion Of Our Knowledge Consists Of Aphorisms: And The Greatest And Best Of Men Is But An Aphorism.

Swiftly, Swiftly Flew The Ship, Yet She Sailed Softly Too: Sweetly, Sweetly Blew The Breeze - On Me Alone It Blew.