Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.