In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.