Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Age and Aging

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old wom!. That old witch.

Critics and Criticism

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

Experience

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Goodness

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Honor

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

Language

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Motivation

No one does anything from a single motive.

Plagiarism

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Pride

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

Sympathy

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Wit

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.