Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.