A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.

The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.