A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.