A Thought Is A Thing As Real

Which Is More Misshapen,--religion Without Virtue, Or Virtue Without Religion?

Tormented By The Cursed Ambition Always To Put A Whole Book In A Page, A Whole Page In A Sentence, And This Sentence In A Word. I Am Speaking Of Myself.

All Disputation Makes The Mind Deaf; And When People Are Deaf, I Am Dumb.

Fully To Understand A Grand And Beautiful Thought Requires, Perhaps, As Much Time As To Conceive It.

The Beautiful Invariably Possesses A Visible And A Hidden Beauty; And It Is Certain That No Style Is So Beautiful As That Which Presents To The Attentive Reader A Half-hidden Meaning.