The best part of health is fine disposition

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit to imitate the sayers.

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.