avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination..

I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea. Even a little of it is like manure to the….

I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and happy-making occupation than any othe….

Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it..