I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power.