Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.

The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.