Man is a tool-using animal.

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.