Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists.

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.