No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

Correct English is the slang of prigs.