With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense.