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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
Trees are your best antiques.
If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and... →
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and... →
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
Books are a finer world within the world.
Everything is sweetened by risk.
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.