Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.