The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
When we love, it is the heart that judges.
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?
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.
Living requires but little life; doing requires much.
The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.