All promise outruns performance.
If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The virtue of books is to be readable.
Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.
Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.