Speed in utterance leads to carelessness, and upon the heels of careless utterance tread the toes of careless thought, and when thought is careless its power is gone.

A man or woman with a blurred sense of accuracy, a habit of exaggerating, or of letting prejudice get mixed with judgment, is as much hindered in the service of others, in the advancement of the common welfare, as an artist who has lost the sense of what pure colour means.

No great man ever minds stooping.

.….Talking is like playing on the harp;  there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.

All that we have read and learned….. constitutes at last a spiritual society, of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it. 

 In learning to know other things and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves and are to ourselves better worth knowing.  

We may, if we choose, find a purer and more exquisite delight in wise reading than in anything else…..