A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
Economics and ethics have little in common.
The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.