The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.