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

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.

Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous 'gluttonism' for books.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

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

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.