History is clarified experience.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.

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