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"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."
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"Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo."
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"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."
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"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching."
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"Every artist was first an amateur."
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"Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date."
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"Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side."
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"I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books."
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"Never read a book that is not a year old."
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"Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side."
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