The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.