The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.