A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.