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

Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!

Friendship is the bread of the heart.

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

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

... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.