We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.