Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.