A Book Should Be Luminous Not Voluminous.

It Is One Of The Arts Of A Great Beauty To Heighten The Effect Of Her Charms By Affecting To Be Sweetly Unconscious Of Them.

Music Is The Fourth Great Material Want, First Food, Then Clothes, Then Shelter, Then Music.

Hope Is The Best Part Of Our Riches.

Adhesion To One Idea Is Monomania; To Few, Slavery.

The Selection Of A Subject Is To The Author What Choice Of Position Is To The General,--once Skilfully Determined, The Battle Is Already Half Won. Of A Few Writers It May Be Said That They Are Popular In Despite Of Their Subjects--but Of A Great Many More It May Be Observed That They Are Popular Because Of Them.