What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
Taste is the next gift to genius.
The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought or feeling a thousand times repeated becomes his at last who utters it best.