The discovery of one star is the promise of another.

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.

The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.

Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.

Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion.

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

To study history is to study literature.

Taste is improved by cultivation.

The drama is the book of the people.

It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wickedness.

The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.

One of God’s high callings for His people is that they be teachers of good things.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

I'm weird. Everyone says so.

You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.

Indiana,’ he said. ‘They steal the land from the Indians and leave the name, yes?

The only true phenom...is me.

No Such Thing as Bad Results

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world.