Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.