We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.