A book should be luminous but not voluminous. - Christian Nestell Bovee

"There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.

The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.