Summer has set in with its usual severity.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.