Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.
Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.
They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.