Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.

Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.