He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events. I have found it so. And so much the more, as they are not intended for consolation.

Politics is but a narrow field.

Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her.

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point.

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.