I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.
Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.