Those Works Alone Can Have Enduring Success

Mathematicians Do Not Write For The Circulating Library.

Our Native Susceptibilities And Acquired Tastes Determine Which Of The Many Qualities In An Object Shall Most Impress Us, And Be Most Clearly Recalled. One Man Remembers The Combustible Properties Of A Substance, Which To Another Is Memorable For Its Polarising Property; To One Man A Stream Is So Much Water-power, To Another A Rendezvous For Lovers.

Insincerity Is Always Weakness; Sincerity Even In Error Is Strength.

It Is Unhappily True That Much Insincere Literature And Art, Executed Solely With A View To Effect, Does Succeed By Deceiving The Public.

Books Have Become Our Dearest Companions, Yielding Exquisite Delights And Inspiring Lofty Aims.