A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

The only cure for grief is action.

A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

The artist is called a creator.

Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.