A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.