Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.