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

Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.

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

Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the unworthy, daily evoked by his personal defects, who with a handsome person would have sunk into the luxury of a careless life under the tranquillizing smiles of continual admiration.

Reserve is the truest expression of respect towards those who are its objects.

All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!