To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.

Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.