I doubt whether, in the eyes of pure intelligence, an ill-grounded hasty rejection be not a greater sign of weakness than an ill-grounded and hasty faith.
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone, since they are content with so little!
God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing.
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife.
For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Drudgery is as necessary, to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed.
A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.