A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.

There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.