The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.

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

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.