Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.