Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.