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

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.

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

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 public is a bad guesser.

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.

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