Failure is the test of greatness.

My body is but the lees of my better being.

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

The further our civilization advances upon its present lines so much the cheaper sort of thing does "fame" become, especially of the literary sort. This species of "fame" a waggish acquaintance says can be manufactured to order, and sometimes is so manufactured.

Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.