The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

And there are Ben [Jonson] and William Shakespeare in wit-combat, sure enough; Ben bearing down like a mighty Spanish war-ship, fraught with all learning and artillery; Shakespeare whisking away from him - whisking right through him, athwart the big bulk and timbers of him; like a miraculous Celestial Light-ship, woven all of sheet-lightning and sunbeams!

A noble book! all men's book!

The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?