We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.

The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.

What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.