If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

Live in the sunshine.

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.