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.

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.