The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

Life's objective is life itself.

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.