The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evenin….

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him..

I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror. He who sh….

Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word..

He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the….

Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong..

Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral wo….

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is ….

Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?.

Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair s….

To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds..

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and….

Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour….

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years ….

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes..

Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used..

She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep..

But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, ….

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art..

The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every o….