The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.