In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.

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.

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

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.

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