What Dazzles, For The Moment Spends Its

Talents Are Nurtured Best In Solitude, But Character On Life's Tempestuous Seas!

Our Earthly Ball A Peopled Garden.

To Know Where A Thing Is We Must Have Found It.

The History Of Knowledge Is A Great Fugue In Which The Voices Of The Nations One After The Other Emerge.

It Used To Happen, And Still Happens, To Me To Take No Pleasure In A Work Of Art At The First Sight Of It, Because It Is Too Much For Me; But If I Suspect Any Merit In It, I Try To Get At It; And Then I Never Fail To Make The Most Gratifying Discoveries--to Find New Qualities In The Work Itself And New Faculties In Myself.