And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?