Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

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.

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

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.

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