Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious.

The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her.

Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time.

A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life.

We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil.

The discovery of one star is the promise of another.

To study history is to study literature.