Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember; others lay criticism asleep by a charm. Especially women use words that are not words,--as steps in a dance are not steps,--but reproduce the genius of that they speak of; as the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely, whilst the church chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.