Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.