Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.

Silence is sorrow's best food.

His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.