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

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

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

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.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

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.