Frogs are smart - they eat what bugs them.

A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

Clear statement is argument.

They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind.

There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.

The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying.