Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which springs from matter and light, envinced in solid and shade.

We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible.