In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.