Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.

Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.