The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.