Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems.

The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

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

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.