It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.