Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Education should be as broad as man.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Civilization depends on morality.

Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.