No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.

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

Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.

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.

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.