Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.