The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.

That which builds is better than that which is built.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.