We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.
Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.
God hides things by putting them near us.
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.