As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.