A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

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, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

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

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.

Flowers... that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God only by them - when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.