Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

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.