Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.
It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.