One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.

I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.

Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.