It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few; Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

And what they dare to dream of, date to do.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.