People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.
The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.
Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
Who among us has not sought peace in a song?
Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.