All that is literature seeks to communicate power

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

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

Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.

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.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.