Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.