The burden of the incommunicable.

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.

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

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.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.