A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.

My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.

An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.