The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

The hero is he who is immovably centered.

A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.

The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,--a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,--he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.

An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.

The highest Beauty should be plain set.