Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.