The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.

The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.

I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.

Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.

There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.

The burden of the incommunicable.