A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar.

Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

The only cure for grief is action.

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.

To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.