The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

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.

What we call results are beginnings.

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.

What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!