The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.