If the race is good, so is the place.
Good criticism is very rare and always precious.
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.
Stand guard at the portal of your mind.
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.