It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.