The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.