Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

One may quote till one compiles.

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

Nothing is born into this world without labor.

Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.

Not everyone is meant to stay forever.

China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.

Often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.

A whale out of water is over-run by ants.