We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.