If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.