The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.

Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.