The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

A great scholar, in the highest sense of the term, is not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of combination; bringing together from the four winds, like the Angel of the Resurrection, what else were dust from dead men's bones, into the unity of breathing life.

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

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

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.