It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others.

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.