No book was ever written down by any but itself.

A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste, that the fashions follow a law of gradation, and are never arbitrary. The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode; and a cultivated eye is prepared for and predicts the new fashion.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.