There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.

Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.