Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

There is properly no history, only biography.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.