Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.