How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your Manchesters and Birminghams; and, in those Manchesters and Birminghams, hundreds of thousands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test.

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.