A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic..

The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white..

Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken fo….

Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not..

The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage..

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral..

Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now - a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies - it plays right into the hands ….

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found..

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools..

Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions..

With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer..

Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought or feeling a thou….

It is right precious to behold The first long surf of climbing light Flood all the thirsty east with gold..

Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes..

Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desir….

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of ….

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart..

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or wit….

Stern men with empires in their brains..

Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the pass….