When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart.

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

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.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.

One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.