The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

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.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.