Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they're so eager to get to the light on the other side.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.