A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.

The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.