Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

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

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.

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.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.